Sea of Love 1989

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After a career slump that plagued him through most of the 1980s, Al Pacino made a stellar comeback in this taut 1989 thriller, playing a weary New York police detective who falls in love with the woman (Ellen Barkin) who is the prime suspect in the murder case he's investigating. Expertly written by Richard Price and directed by Harold Becker, the story is designed to keep its central characters (and the viewer) in a state of constant suspicion and arousal--an emotional combination that sends dangerous sparks flying between Pacino and Barkin. Their chemistry is intense, and their love scenes are some of the hottest of any movie of its...

'Sea of Love' is a sexy thriller similar to Basic Instinct, and it predated it by a few years. The only real difference is that Basic Instinct is a lot steamier and more graphic, and the lead vixen, played by Sharon Stone, is much more straightforwardly nasty. 'Sea of Love' is a multi-layered mystery, even though the...